# How is ansible\_fqdn Determined?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-is-ansible-fqdn-determined/17514>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 13, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-is-ansible-fqdn-determined/17514 "2015-02-13T23:33:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_Short](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@Chris\_Short](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chris_Short)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-is-ansible-fqdn-determined/17514/1 "2015-02-13T23:33:43Z")

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How is ansible\_fqdn Determined? My el6 lab environments are a mess currently and I’d like to clean them up if possible.

Thanks,  
Chris Short

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**Author:** ![sivel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sivel/32/1198_2.png) [@sivel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sivel)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-is-ansible-fqdn-determined/17514/2 "2015-02-14T00:39:39Z")

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It uses [https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html#socket.getfqdn](https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html#socket.getfqdn)